Max Planck Society Research Scholarships in Germany

Scholarship
Information

Max
Planck Society Research Scholarships

To foster individual research projects, the Max
Planck Society offers foreign researchers the possibility of obtaining a
scholarship. These scholarships are typically granted for a period of between
two and four months. Preference is given to those researchers whose work
promot

es and advances the goals of the research program and the research
focuses of the Institute. Of special interest to the Department of Criminal Law are research projects concerning
comparative law, European criminal law, international criminal law, economic
crime, terrorism, organized crime, and information law. Of interest to the Department of Criminology are topics covering criminal
sanctions, dangerous offenders, empirical research on criminal procedure,
organized crime, terrorism and domestic security, victimization, social change,
changes in life circumstances, crime, and crime control.

Scholarship
Amounts

The Max Planck
Society grants scholarships of various amounts in line with the academic
qualifications of the applicant:

  • Doctoral
    scholarships
    for foreign doctoral students provide
    1,365 EUR per month (as of 12/2012; subject to change),
  • Post-doctoral
    scholarships
    for foreign post-doctoral researchers
    provide 2,100 EUR per month (as of 12/2012; subject to change), and
  • Research
    scholarships
    for foreign professors provide 2,300 EUR
    per month (as of 12/2012; subject to change).

Travel expenses to
and from Freiburg are not covered by the scholarship. The Max Planck Institute
does not, as a rule, reimburse for travel expenses. If travel expenses are
particularly high, we recommend that the applicant seek assistance from
appropriate international organizations.

Application
Procedure

The application
period for a scholarship in the following year closes on

31 May of the previous year.

Applications
received after this date can only be taken into account the year thereafter.

To apply for a
scholarship from the Max Planck Society, please fill out and submit the
questionnaire below, along with copies of the required documents specified
therein.

Applications can be
made either
to the Department of Criminal Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Sieber) or to the
Department of Criminology (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jörg Albrecht). Please
clearly specify the chosen department in your application.

For further
information concerning the application procedure, please email stipendien@mpicc.de. Where
necessary, questions and requests will be internally forwarded to the
responsible contact person at the MPI.


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PLEASE NOTE
New regulation with
respect to health insurance for doctoral/postdoctoral stipend holder
In
future, the Notification Letter will contain a resolutive condition to ensure
that the stipend holder’s health insurance cover is sufficient. In other words,
all scholarship holders are to submit proof of statutory health insurance cover
and/or private comprehensive health insurance cover as document substantiating
payment, otherwise the stipend will be deemed not to have materialized.
For
both German and foreign stipend holders, the certificate as referred to in §
257 Paragraph 2 a of Volume V of the Social Insurance Code (Sozialgesetzbuch V
– SGB V) serves as a proof of sufficient private health insurance cover. If the
stipend holder is insured with a statutory health insurance from an EU country
(except for Germany), a confirmation that the insurance is also valid in
Germany must be presented (the submission of a European health insurance card
alone is not sufficient).

The following form
must be filled out by all applicants and submitted with the application.

Please attach to
your application copies
of the following documents:

  • Curriculum
    vitae
  • Publication
    list
  • Research
    plan
  • University
    transcript
  • Doctoral
    diploma
  • Marriage
    certificate (if applicable); Visum of husband or wife
  • Birth
    certificate of your child/ren
  • Residence
    permit
  • Proof
    of health insurance

Applications should
be submitted in timely fashion to:

Max-Planck-Institut für
ausländisches
und internationales Strafrecht
– Stipendienstelle d. Verwaltung –
Günterstalstr. 73
79100 Freiburg i. Br.
Germany

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